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Low-Income Households Food Budget

Posted September 29th, 2006 by Lisa Broniszewski in Poverty and Income Inequality, Rural Sociology

This ERS publication, from the USDA, tries to determine whether some types of households are more likely than others to budget their food purchases in accordance with TFP benchmarks, and to identify households that might benefit most from nutrition education programs, the study compared actual and TFP expenditures for four household categories.

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